Video notes; Although ENIAC is mentioned as the 'first general purpose computer' in this video. It's debatable somewhat. For example, the Colossus came a couple of years earlier (although wasn't declassified until recently), and although it doesn't have the same programming flexibility, it could be argued to hold the title. If you want to know what the video presenters have been up to since; Rebecca White - www.imdb.com/name/nm3301133/ Annette Chavez - www.imdb.com/name/nm0154533/ Brahman Turner - www.imdb.com/name/nm2133186/ If you're interested in seeing the entire video content; I'll be uploading the captured VHS content to archive.org for preservation, and potentially to my extra channel, once I've tidied them up. Check back here for updated links.
I know I will get yelled at for this but I will comment anyway. Konrad Zuse built his Z3 computer in 1941: two years before the Colossus. Unfortunately for him he was a German engineer and his machine was destroyed by the bombardments.
We didn't have this in our school. We had something better, it was a mad eccentric example of a teacher. This guy was a genius an It was probably the only class that I fully engaged in. He used to be a computer engineer in the RAF and thought us how to solder components to circuit boards. Nothing special, but you certainly learnt something. I took my megadrive in for him to look at because the power light stopped working. When I went back to pick it up two days later he said that he made a slight alteration. When I put the cartridge in and switched the power on, instead of the light coming on, the entire cartridge was surrounded with a ray of light from inside the console. It looked like the game was being summoned from the skies.
@@ThatManOverThere Well you'd have trouble getting it in there today. Old consoles were just 1 or 2 boards in big plastic cases with air. They made the cases big so that you'd feel you bought something substantial for the money even though it was mostly empty.
@@Commrade-DOGE he certainly was, all the students loved him (over 300 pupils from past and present attended his funeral last year, myself included). He was the sort of teacher who didn't care about sticking to the curriculum, he wanted to teach us about real life skills. He done it in a way that everyone paid attention to, he taught me so much and I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for him. I didn't do well with my qualifications, but I went on to learn a couple of trades. I have now been working as a nuclear operator/maintenance engineer for 14 years.
They always had some cool videos or movies to show when they brought out the television and VHS player. In my French class, my teacher had these cool 1980s travel videos and even some tapes on architecture they used to show.
I could hear the sound of the TV being on, in a room I was going to be in later in the day, which told me I could draw and be left alone in that class.
@@Ben-up4lj Still, I find it a pretty shitty piece of kit. They could have made it a nice 74xx kit, teaching about the basics, still though they choose to just throw a random MOSFET and diodes. It teaches nothing
Loved this video. One of my first jobs out of school was working and a silicon wafer factory. I was in the growing dept. so I took the raw silicon rocks, melt them down in a furnace, add the chemicals like arsenic or whatever and grown the ingots. It’s was a fascinating job. Sadly they shut down. But I did learn a lot there. I was able to see how they were sliced into wafers and packed.
"I showed you what happens when you rub fur feet on carpet. Now let's talk about the chemical composition of semiconductors!" Now, that's a learning curve.
I saw an IMAX movie called “The Journey Inside” co-produced by Intel, but I’ve never been able to find any of the footage. It was inadvertently hilarious, because it was about miniaturized aliens trying to sabotage the newest Intel processor because of all the advantages it would give humans. A miniaturized teenager attempts to thwart the aliens attempt to break the floating point unit. I saw it just as the famous F00F bug was coming to light. I kept on snickering while those near me thought I was insane.
I've been a hardcore computer geek since the 80s - I've seen public knowledge of the machines vastly improve, parts of them can be easy to learn and should be - but it IS a science, if you actually want to work on the cutting edge of hardware and software? you need to learn just as much as a quantum physicist - and in fact you'll be working right along side them. Computers as a tool to perform tasks? teach people how to use the hammer, not how to forge it. Leave the forging to the blacksmiths.
Johnny Wednesday Basic programming skills imo should be present at all teachers and be taught to students. And that’s like, checking the oil of a car and topping it up. But most people using a computer can’t even open the proverbial bonnet. And there’s nothing wrong trying your hand on forging! I love to do that one day when I have enough space. And I studied electronics and computer science! I love to weld. I know how to mold and make FX makeup too, even though I work as VFX technical director and compositor. Why?! Because if I do something in CG, I want to know how it’s done in real life - arguably it made me far better with colour and blending too, but also I now know when to tell the director and producer to use the old fashioned hammer instead of the state of the art piece of software. And I also know the core principles on lighting and DP and direction. Hell I can even fix a light and probably even change a sensor from a RED or an ARRI. And it’s that general wide skillets that is appealing for employers. It’s all about having a willingness to learn and understand. But most teachers are themselves not eager to learn new things (at least my experience is that they are extremely conservative and generally at the low-end of the society intellectual scale; somewhere near police and parking attendants).
I'm pretty sure my high school was a "test market" for that. We were the local "tech" magnet school in a city with a lot of Intel campuses, and our electronics teacher was a retired long-time Intel engineer/engineering manager who always got a lot of stuff from Intel. I don't recall any slick packaging, but I do remember an Intel provided VHS, workbooks, even a chip wafer. And I recall the "electronics build" parts were laughably basic compared to what our class already did. (But thinking about the fact that most high schools don't have "electronics" classes, this would probably be appropriate for a normal high school.) This would have been in '90-'92. (I don't recall exactly which year I took electronics in that range.)
The photo of a 90's school computer lab really took me back, in 1996 I was in primary school and we still had Acorn compters in the classroom, nobody knew how to use them but I was always facinated by them. In 97ish Sainsburys supermarket ran a voucher campaign to win a computer for your school, our school collected so many we got about 20 RM PC's... I have a few outstanding memories, the first being the teachers, still not really knowing what they were doing. On one occasion a whizz kid logged into the server and took control of everybodys computer (he was only 9, quite impressive really) And the smell, its a very distinct smell from the past, beige plastic, warm power supplies and screetching CRT monitors, I dont miss CRT's, god I hate sound, I have no idea how I managed to stay in class with 20 of them, although I suppose back then we were used to it from the TV at home. Once I got to secondary school we had two labs full of the latest DELL units, they had USB ports! Cutting edge stuff, I cannot stress the amazment of USB drives. I managed to find the only computer in the lab that didnt have Explorer locked out, many lessons were spent on Myspace and MSN, bit silly really as I still can't use excel!
Well, that's a nostalgic trip, thank you! I owned one of those kits with a 486 proc and I remember using a breadboard to make building the "experiments" easier. We never used them in school though. Mine came from a computer training company called FutureKids back in the mid-90s.
I was homeschooled and my mom got a hold of this kit because I was showing quite an interest in computers. I absolutely loved the kit and used components out of it for years for my own projects. Years later I'm in the IT field and I still have fond memories of it.
I had this in a class, I found it in the back of the room on the top of a bookshelf no one else ever touched, I thought it was absolutely amazing. I brought it to the teacher's attention and they dismissed it as "it's not part of the curriculum". Seeing my excitement the other kids collectively decided to destroy it with the endorsement, via apathy, of the teacher. I literally begged the teacher to preserve it, let me go through it, while the other kids were outright vocalizing their intent and plans on destroying it. Instead of getting to delve into it together as a class or alone as the only one who cared, by the end of the day, all the included bits were scratched to shit by a circle compass/or scissors, stomped on, sharpie'd, or just missing. I never saw the films or got to read the material but I remember briefly holding the processor and the silicon wafer and marvelling at their beauty, immediately knowing they were special. While I didn't learn much about computers that day from that kit I learnt lots about ignorant people.
It’s not. I have one of those and the back should have an epoxy and labeling for what it is; the fact that it’s not there and looks like there’s a clear indent, I’d assume there’s no CPU in that package at all. It is just a mechanical sample, which should just be used for cooler/motherboard design to make sure things fit together well.
@@1armbiker Intel had a few bad runs around that time, before the bright spark came up with Celeron. So it might be a cpu that failed to run correctly.
Our computer science class in high school (must have been somewhere around 1999) consisted of determining what is hard- and software (duh) and how to plug in and operate certain peripherals like monitor, keyboard, mouse and printer...the absolute highlight was opening and actually typing something in word or making a simple spreadsheet in excel...and thats about it. Thank god I was interested in computers way before that because this desaster could not spark anyones interest.
I graduated in 2010 and we did not even have a computer class. I helped put together the computer labs computers lol. The lab was only used for games and rarely ever for class. $5000 worth Dell computers 4 total. My copy of Sim City 4 DE running on 3 of them lol.
As I recall, mine has a socket 370 Celeron to go with all the LEDs, battery terminals, and silicon disc. There was a big binder of stuff but no VHS tapes.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Just dug it out and posed pics on Twitter (@CZroe). My packaged CPU from the kit isn't even labeled what kind of CPU it is (just "Mechanical Sample") and the box has that same warning about not using it in an actual computer. Some of the legs were bent but I straightened them.
I remember a class I took in high school called "modular technology" basically there were about a dozen kits like this, but each one was a different type of technology, aerodynamics, pneumatics, PLC, radio broadcasting, and you picked one and self taught which each kit with the goal of 4 per year, everyone at least doubled that and I hit 9 myself, I learned more in that class than any of the others and teacher generally either read or slept through it, point is tell a kid about a lesson you learned from a kit teach them for a semester tops, give a kid the kit directly and they'll remember it for life
Whoa! We had the exact same thing in my high school. One of them was actually a full fledged old MS Flight Sim complete with full cockpit controls. We also had one to program robots. Completely forgot about that class!
Oh man, i remember the Everyready 9 Cat. Those were days, before the rise of our omnipotent overlord, The Energizer Bunny. Now we live in post bunny dystopia. Long live 9 cat!!!!
Annette Chavez would have actually been somewhat of a celebrity to us American middle schoolers of the time - she was previously host of Wild and Crazy Kids on Nickelodeon, and most of us were right in the age range to have watched that show when we were younger.
13:40 The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in.
I delt with a modern equivalent when in tech school. I attended a "desktop diagnostic classes" We diagnosed, repaired and engineered fixes for issues. Not just with hard ware but software. I had 2 teachers try to teach the Same thing. My 1st (he was in silicone valley in the late 80s to 90s fureing the tech boom, and worked at "locamotive") Teacher had layed the foundation and with the same kit and VHS tape (simular to the kit shown) and slowly, and in order of newer info in order. So we started with the same basic knowledge he did, in the late 90s and worked our way to modern day computers. He had a 9 out of 10 Completion yearly 2nd teacher (had no history in computers) she had decided to throw out the the basics and sought to buy tos that are in no way used for computer diagnostic (pipe wrench, rivet gun, cheap multimeter without probes, Robertson screws driver, and channel locks) and a top of the line "manufacturing Robotic arm for "educational purposes" sat in the corner and the local newspaper ran a story about the arm. 3 years on they are trying to sell it after removing the "desktop diagnostic class" due to the class only having 4 cumulatively, complete program in 8 years (that's about 1 in 10 student every year). Safe to say I wanted a brand new $400,000 robot arm for $500 (the plastic protector was still on the input controler from the factory) but I have neither the drive to remember that stupid thing, or to fix it, if it needed repairs (it was in a school after all) So yha sth sold the arm for nearly a 10th the price, to get rid of it, I bought my tool box from class (I got a full "husk electronic tool kit" which mainly was a good quality multi meter, small pliers, tweekers, a "coredless" sodering iron with thermometer, a barely used bottle of sodder, and sodder wick.) Sad to see the class go, but I'm shure Lewis Rossmans repair videos were her replacement to hands on work after she nearly thew out our tools.
I'm from the UK and grew up using BBC Micros and Archimedes and we never had anything this cool in our computer studies lessons... Though to be our teacher was more obsessed with people not having their hands in their pockets than actual teaching! He also spent numerous lessons going over (and over) the absolute basics and on the odd occasion he did move on he first had to go over the basics again. Most lessons were like a TV programme with 22 minutes of "previously on..." and 4 minutes of "and now"
That 90's Everready label with the cat.... I feel my childhood in this.... You used to be able to buy those 9V batteries for cheap, and they where used in R/C car transmitters (the old 43/72mhz ones)... I want one of those wafers, that is cool.
The actual experement part was covered in Science class during our electricity chapter, not the same teacher as my computer class, but it was covered pretty well. He had full dedicated setups with a bult in throwswitch and places to use aligator clips and snap in big D cell batteries-all in all a Very nice setup.
11:13 it was for middle schools in the states, we had actual computer classes in the 90s, especially mid to late 90s. this kit wasn't intended for "home room" or literal general classes like what we in the states got in elementary back then. it was more like a highscool setting. so for the most part classrooms that got these kits used them until the new kit came out, that's why they went ahead and did more than one.
I used this kit before in 1998 during high school. I was the teaching assistant and used it to teach other students in the class about how computers work.
Actually had an Electronics Class in my 12th Grade (1975-76).Closest to PC Tech class we had.Built a Tube Type Superheterodyne Receiver (Radio) from scratch.Loved that class! Fond memories of CHARGING up LARGE Electrolytic Caps & tossing to the guy across the table...LOL !
I remember in high school (90's) my computer repair class was suppose to be fixing computers. But we all just came to a realization that all the old IBM computers/ compatibles were not worth saving and we ended up chucking them in the recycling bin. We pretty much just build gaming PC's. Man you just brought back some memories.
4:53 Original soundtrack by the great Anthony Phillips! He was the original guitarist and songwriter for prog rock group Genesis. The song you hear at 4:53 is "Force Majeure" which can be found on the Finger Painting LP; A collection of his stock music works mostly from the 80s.
I remember the one this specific one in the video back in the 7th grade here in the US. My science teacher taught us how to use the computer even though most of us already did. it was pretty standard teaching stuff in 97 depending on what school got these.
11:42 Wow, as an American, seeing those Everready Cat 9 batteries really takes me back! They were probably one of the more popular brands of "cheap" battery available and very common. Where they common in the UK during the 90's as well? Everready is the company that makes Energizer batteries. Energizer is their top-end battery, while Everyready is generally branded as a lower/cheaper tier, although today Everready makes a common rechargeable Everyready branded battery kit that is rather common.
Hey I remember when the only battery I bought was an eveready battery. My grandad has a 9v solid everyeady battery, (aka one with the zinc and copper plates inside a cardboard box as a battery) it’s over 80years old and still holds a charge and can be used to run a voltage tester.
I remember my high school threw one of these out when I was attending there in the mid-2000's. I never had a teacher use materials from one of the kits.
Back in the 80's we had computer classes using Apple II and advanced programming on a multi user mini computer, as for the hands on electronics lessons, that was done in an electronics class.
@@Dimondminer11 There were some great songs about computers back in the day. Like Al Yankovic's _It's All About The Pentiums_ and John Vanderslice's _Bill Gates Must Die._
I went to a Science and Technology Academy, starting when I was in 6th grade onward thru 8th. My technology teacher had one of these kits, but by the time I got to that school, I was well past simple circuts, so I never got to experience the lesson (the wafer is awesome tho, and you can buy them cheap) They also built a new wing onto the school and that became the tech labs, with CNC and robotics stations, MIDI music studios, Video production labs, and a bunch of other stuff... I was lucky enough to to start that school the first year it opened, and I learned a hell of a lot of information. Got me building computers at age 14.
The transistor in the instructions is Mosfet (Drain, Gate, Source). The transistor in the kit is bipolar (TIP48). This could cause some problems if you put a powerful 1.5v battery with thick(ish) wires on the transistor. It'll get very hot with the base current reaching several amps. Mosfet transistors have insulated gates. The equivalent pin on a bipolar transistor (Base) isn't insulated but presents a diode with a 0.6v drop.
We had this at my high school, I remember I must have watched those videos a dozen times in my two-year computer tech course 🤣 The wafer was really cool though, I remember marveling at it for hours.
I graduated high school in 1992 so we didn't have kits like this. However, my school was selected for a pilot program that taught students about computers and electronics. Unfortunately, the program only lasted one year, but I learned a lot and it set me on the path to a CS degree. I would love to get my hands on one of these kits. Even though I was already out of high school when these kits were developed it's still a cool bit of education and computer history.
I was almost 50 years old and LONG out of school when this kit was released! All of my computer learnin' was self taught. It would have been fun to work through the kit though.
Man I honestly think if we had access to this kit or even just the video in elementary school or Junior High (grade 1-6, &7-9) it might have seriously changed my life. I was born in 1987 and all I remember of the first 6 years of school was a bunch of old apple 2s in a room, and 4 of the newer internet connected macs in the library eventually upgrading to one in each classroom. In junior high we got the multi color I macs in a room off the library. All I remember in all of those years is being taught that computers were basically a big encyclopedia painfully too slow to use, something for using macs version of Microsoft paint, and of course in elementary school...ugly green boxes with Oregons trail (omg! Best school days ever!) And something like space invaders. All we ever covered was your basic electrical....positive negative, ac/DC, electro magnet.... motor, switch... done. No transistor, fets, capacitors, etc. Computers no way. Junior high was just hamsterdance and highschool was looking at pictures of buffy the vampire slayer... until someone stole all the computer mice and literally bankrupted the entire highschool computer budget. Of course I eventually got a computer at home that my dad used for book keeping in junior high with AOL and 56k that was 1kb a second and we learned about Napster etc and mp3s that took 2 days to download and that's all that a computer was to me. By the time I finally met someone who actually had any clue about a computer or got access to dsl was after highschool and too late. Made up for it by wasting a year of my life on the original COD Lol. I was literally one of the top 10 in the world. If only we had twitch or UA-cam back then... few years later I learned enough to start an online business, barely.... lost it all to an unscrupulous web host.
I had that thing.. ended up keeping the demo processor and wafer.. the rest was covered in battery acid.. lol.. the processor does work and is a pentium 233 mmx engineering sample. I think these kits were made to get a uncle sam tax break.
The EverReady 9 lives refers to the fact that the old battery technology would kind of bounce back after going dead to a usable voltage after letting them sit a while.
Awesome, I realy enjoyed al the nostalgia :-) Cheers on yet another great video !! Nice colorfull suits too, Intel ! Cool TV ad they had with that back then, I still remember those :D
In my humble opinion "Colossus" WAS the first thing we could qualify as the first "general purpose digital" computer. Univac may still hold the title for the general "business" digital computer (as it was commercially sold, rather than for strictly research/government use.)
Reminds me of a class I took junior year in 2007. One of the things we did was basically this, but a step up lol. It was basically just soldering everything to a board in the right order. My project shocked you when you touched it. That was it lol. I still have it actually lol
We had this at my school , they followed it to the number , our school had full , modern computer labs due to the mining company in town , every time they updated , back then it was like every 3 years , the retired hardware went to the schools we never thought much of it then just seemed normal but looking back the stuff we had was kind of crazy
We had nothing at my school. Which is remarkable considering the team that invented the transistor were living in my home town when they did that and one of the co-creators of the C programming language and UNIX attended my school too.
The old Intel logo, it was such a good logo. Remember when Apple announced the switch to Intel CPUs? They just presented the word Apple with a subscript e at the end, and everybody knew the rumors are true, they switch from PowerPC to Intel. Such a good logo! Now they have a generic elliptical thing with a forgetable font.
Always have thought that was the hallmark of a really well designed logo to my mind the text should ideally be a helpful hint to anyone encountering it for the first time, do your job right and the rest of the design should be simple and memorable enough to be recognised on it's own by anyone that has seen the original. A great example of this would be the brewery carling a logo so iconic that they literally ran whole multiple TV marketing campaigns in the UK where the usual end of ad shot of the product logo never actually used the standard CARLING text it would just be some adjective they were trying to associate with and knowing that their logo was so recognisable with any text printed in the same font there they could use it instead to create a mental association between the desired adjective and the logo ok kinda psychologically manipulative too but it's a TV ad so that is par for the course does take one hell of a good design to be confident enough to pull that and not fear that a large portion of those CPM's you are paying for will be instead left thinking "What was that ad for again?".
those overhead projectors were even used when i was going to school in 2010... you're talking about it like you need to be old to remeber them ^^ great video though
They might be a part of culture. I was doing my master studies in Germany, in 2017 (in telecommunications), and the projectors were still in use by some departments. For some classes, there were huge amounts of already existing slides. For technological innovations, we had professors and teaching assistants which were experts in doing real-time hand-drawn animations on the slides with non-permanent markers. The slides would get erased after each lecture, in order to have the possibility of doing the animations by hand, in real-time, again next year.
Loved this vid, the kit is brilliant, that wafer is ace! And my goodness, I'd forgotton the joy of acetates and dull school ohp's with bulbs that should have been changed a decade earlier! My science teacher used to have to blackout all the windows to make her's even remotly visable! Good times! 😊
As someone who went to public middle and high school in Southern California during the 1990's in a middle class town. I never saw anything like this, in fact computers were only really used to teach typing and no more. Which in hind sight was extremely short sighted.
We used the first gen kit of this in high school, I want to say about 1996 or 1997. I ended up with just the box of parts part of one at the end of the year, though it was unused. I used the batteries since hey, free batteries, as well as the roll of electrical tape as I've always been an electrical tinkerer. I've used several of the LEDs and a couple of the switches for various projects over the years, but most of them are still kicking around. Still have the box with the wafer and couple dies and processor kicking around - I kept meaning to try it in a junk board just to see if it actually worked or not, but never got around to it. I was already a pretty techy computer guy in high school so I didn't find the video or exercises especially helpful but it was fun.
@@SproutyPottedPlant You must not get the joke... xD Varta batteries have a nasty habit of exploding when they are left in things and they were commonly used in Amigas. Searching #vartadestroyerofworlds on UA-cam should get you a good example. :)
I think I vaguely remember seeing one of those kits. A few chapters of the course were used, to explain the basics of logic, for a Turbo Pascal class. We only got as far as the LED & transistor exercise. Those "Classic" batteries had that design for years, and they weren't even alkaline. They kinda made a resurgence as a cheap alternative, as NiCad rechargeables were starting to gain more popularity & become more affordable.
I remember hearing about these on a TV show ("The Next Step" maybe,) but if my school ever got a kit, I never saw it. I've been curious all these years was was in those kits and how they intended to teach. Thanks for finding and sharing.
@@gorak9000 Nope, I went to public school. However I was thinking about this more, by time the the Pentium kits were released, I would have been in high school, not middle school. So if my area got one of the kits, I would have been too old to see it.
The wafer looks like to for some kind of technology or process validation or development. Large areas for memory (the "flat" areas) and various groups of features around. A template used to calibrate machinery, maybe. The chips resulting would have several of the processor functional units neatly available for testing (ALUs, buses, etc) independently of each other.
Could also be a wafer that was only partially processed. If large problems are detected after any processing step, and you know that most of the chips on the wafer won't work anyways, it's cheaper to just scrap the wafer at whatever step it's at than continue processing it to get a few working chips. Typically whole wafers that have made it through all the processing steps aren't discarded once they reach the end of the manufacturing process. They'll get diced (cut to individual die), and whatever chips work will get sold, and the non-working ones are scrapped. There are only a few full wafers that made it all the way through the process that aren't sold - ones that are taken for investigating the defects that are preventing the chips from working, and to improve the manufacturing process, or other internal engineering uses.
I would love to have one of those wafers today just for a light box display. I wonder how many years failed sets were available like that or if you could get one today. I doubt that the same practices are used today, Chips are scanned and sliced in a sealed line with individual chips removed for further processing, the scraps and damaged chips being recycled back into silicon, but probably used to make larger solid state transistors due to the large amount of relative impurities that would need to be removed. However, I have no idea about the economics of electronic silicon. I do recall seeing rejected chips used in jewelry(cuff links, earrings, pendants,ect.) and other novelty items. available for sale on the open market.
At my school, I had to help my teachers to use the computers. I remember Monkey Island becoming part of the curriculum because I copied it into each computer in the school to replace some awful pirate text adventure that all of the kids beat in a single lesson. So I think a tape about Intel would have definitely been a bridge too far. :)
That came out when I was in high school. It would have been amazing at my school. The only computer classes besides typing were two electives. You could choose the basic class and learn HTML or the advanced class and learn C. I took the C class. The teacher didn't even seem to try keeping ahead of us. She just wrote code from the K&R book on the whiteboard and told us to copy it. She tried to explain things occasionally and did a very poor job at it. I think I was the only one who learned anything and that was only because I used other resources and already knew multiple dialects of BASIC.
Video notes;
Although ENIAC is mentioned as the 'first general purpose computer' in this video. It's debatable somewhat. For example, the Colossus came a couple of years earlier (although wasn't declassified until recently), and although it doesn't have the same programming flexibility, it could be argued to hold the title.
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Colossus (like ENIAC) was arguably a programmable computer - you had to rewire it to change the program. The Manchester baby however, definitely was.
Cool video! I remember those batteries!
I know I will get yelled at for this but I will comment anyway. Konrad Zuse built his Z3 computer in 1941: two years before the Colossus. Unfortunately for him he was a German engineer and his machine was destroyed by the bombardments.
What about Charles Babbage's Difference Engine? That was programmable.
@@GianfrancoGallizia The Z3 was the first Turing complete machine.
Now the Manchester Baby was the first stored program computer.
We didn't have this in our school. We had something better, it was a mad eccentric example of a teacher. This guy was a genius an It was probably the only class that I fully engaged in. He used to be a computer engineer in the RAF and thought us how to solder components to circuit boards. Nothing special, but you certainly learnt something. I took my megadrive in for him to look at because the power light stopped working. When I went back to pick it up two days later he said that he made a slight alteration. When I put the cartridge in and switched the power on, instead of the light coming on, the entire cartridge was surrounded with a ray of light from inside the console. It looked like the game was being summoned from the skies.
I could see people paying for something like that today, that's honestly amazing.
Now that's a teacher with a heart in electronics modding.
@@ThatManOverThere Well you'd have trouble getting it in there today. Old consoles were just 1 or 2 boards in big plastic cases with air.
They made the cases big so that you'd feel you bought something substantial for the money even though it was mostly empty.
dude... thats one cool teacher
@@Commrade-DOGE he certainly was, all the students loved him (over 300 pupils from past and present attended his funeral last year, myself included). He was the sort of teacher who didn't care about sticking to the curriculum, he wanted to teach us about real life skills. He done it in a way that everyone paid attention to, he taught me so much and I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for him. I didn't do well with my qualifications, but I went on to learn a couple of trades. I have now been working as a nuclear operator/maintenance engineer for 14 years.
awww snap! walking into the classroom and seeing the tv and vcr in the room just made EVERY kids day!
Unless you are in australia and had to watch muriels wedding... then it was hell. Haha
They always had some cool videos or movies to show when they brought out the television and VHS player. In my French class, my teacher had these cool 1980s travel videos and even some tapes on architecture they used to show.
youre bringing back the memories of the chunky 200 pounds crt atop some kind of cart now...
Unless you were in health class.
I could hear the sound of the TV being on, in a room I was going to be in later in the day, which told me I could draw and be left alone in that class.
Intresting, a clever marketing way for Intel as well to offload all the messed up chips, wafers and die's
I welcome it anyway. It would be really nice to have sth. like this today. Lots of details are lost today through complexity.
@@Ben-up4lj Still, I find it a pretty shitty piece of kit. They could have made it a nice 74xx kit, teaching about the basics, still though they choose to just throw a random MOSFET and diodes. It teaches nothing
I would buy reject wafers. They would make great conversation starters/ art pieces. Maybe it is just me, they look really cool.
@@Ben-up4lj You do, it's called a raspberry Pi and youtube. Available to any school for peanuts.
@Blake Belladonna No, you could simply show some logic gates made using the transistors or make a simple, practical device. Don't fucking exaggerate
Loved this video. One of my first jobs out of school was working and a silicon wafer factory. I was in the growing dept. so I took the raw silicon rocks, melt them down in a furnace, add the chemicals like arsenic or whatever and grown the ingots. It’s was a fascinating job. Sadly they shut down. But I did learn a lot there. I was able to see how they were sliced into wafers and packed.
"Kids like to touch"
Yep, one of my elementary teacher was also thinking that... I wonder if he's still in jail...
Wait what
@@lolgamer51st hell yeah
Was he a religious or secular pervert?
"I showed you what happens when you rub fur feet on carpet. Now let's talk about the chemical composition of semiconductors!"
Now, that's a learning curve.
I saw an IMAX movie called “The Journey Inside” co-produced by Intel, but I’ve never been able to find any of the footage. It was inadvertently hilarious, because it was about miniaturized aliens trying to sabotage the newest Intel processor because of all the advantages it would give humans. A miniaturized teenager attempts to thwart the aliens attempt to break the floating point unit. I saw it just as the famous F00F bug was coming to light. I kept on snickering while those near me thought I was insane.
I remember that movie. I've been searching for footage as well with no luck.
Edit: Go figure he has the VHS and shows clips at the end of the video.
Hope you watched until the end because he shows a clip of it and has a vhs copy of it in hand 🙂
Make sure you check back as he's uploading the contents to Archive.org
Oh my God someone else remembers.
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30 years later: teachers do not know how to use a PC
Honestly, knowing how to operate a computer is nothing compared to knowing how a Computer works. But I get your point.
I've been a hardcore computer geek since the 80s - I've seen public knowledge of the machines vastly improve, parts of them can be easy to learn and should be - but it IS a science, if you actually want to work on the cutting edge of hardware and software? you need to learn just as much as a quantum physicist - and in fact you'll be working right along side them.
Computers as a tool to perform tasks? teach people how to use the hammer, not how to forge it. Leave the forging to the blacksmiths.
@@JohnnyWednesday you forget that computers are commodities like washing machines and microwaves ovens
Johnny Wednesday Basic programming skills imo should be present at all teachers and be taught to students. And that’s like, checking the oil of a car and topping it up. But most people using a computer can’t even open the proverbial bonnet.
And there’s nothing wrong trying your hand on forging! I love to do that one day when I have enough space. And I studied electronics and computer science! I love to weld.
I know how to mold and make FX makeup too, even though I work as VFX technical director and compositor. Why?! Because if I do something in CG, I want to know how it’s done in real life - arguably it made me far better with colour and blending too, but also I now know when to tell the director and producer to use the old fashioned hammer instead of the state of the art piece of software. And I also know the core principles on lighting and DP and direction. Hell I can even fix a light and probably even change a sensor from a RED or an ARRI. And it’s that general wide skillets that is appealing for employers.
It’s all about having a willingness to learn and understand. But most teachers are themselves not eager to learn new things (at least my experience is that they are extremely conservative and generally at the low-end of the society intellectual scale; somewhere near police and parking attendants).
yeah...
I'm pretty sure my high school was a "test market" for that. We were the local "tech" magnet school in a city with a lot of Intel campuses, and our electronics teacher was a retired long-time Intel engineer/engineering manager who always got a lot of stuff from Intel.
I don't recall any slick packaging, but I do remember an Intel provided VHS, workbooks, even a chip wafer. And I recall the "electronics build" parts were laughably basic compared to what our class already did. (But thinking about the fact that most high schools don't have "electronics" classes, this would probably be appropriate for a normal high school.) This would have been in '90-'92. (I don't recall exactly which year I took electronics in that range.)
The photo of a 90's school computer lab really took me back, in 1996 I was in primary school and we still had Acorn compters in the classroom, nobody knew how to use them but I was always facinated by them. In 97ish Sainsburys supermarket ran a voucher campaign to win a computer for your school, our school collected so many we got about 20 RM PC's... I have a few outstanding memories, the first being the teachers, still not really knowing what they were doing. On one occasion a whizz kid logged into the server and took control of everybodys computer (he was only 9, quite impressive really) And the smell, its a very distinct smell from the past, beige plastic, warm power supplies and screetching CRT monitors, I dont miss CRT's, god I hate sound, I have no idea how I managed to stay in class with 20 of them, although I suppose back then we were used to it from the TV at home. Once I got to secondary school we had two labs full of the latest DELL units, they had USB ports! Cutting edge stuff, I cannot stress the amazment of USB drives. I managed to find the only computer in the lab that didnt have Explorer locked out, many lessons were spent on Myspace and MSN, bit silly really as I still can't use excel!
Well, that's a nostalgic trip, thank you!
I owned one of those kits with a 486 proc and I remember using a breadboard to make building the "experiments" easier. We never used them in school though. Mine came from a computer training company called FutureKids back in the mid-90s.
I was homeschooled and my mom got a hold of this kit because I was showing quite an interest in computers. I absolutely loved the kit and used components out of it for years for my own projects. Years later I'm in the IT field and I still have fond memories of it.
This is some pretty advanced stuff for middle school students. I wish I learned about logic gates and semiconductor doping in middle school.
I had this in a class, I found it in the back of the room on the top of a bookshelf no one else ever touched, I thought it was absolutely amazing. I brought it to the teacher's attention and they dismissed it as "it's not part of the curriculum". Seeing my excitement the other kids collectively decided to destroy it with the endorsement, via apathy, of the teacher. I literally begged the teacher to preserve it, let me go through it, while the other kids were outright vocalizing their intent and plans on destroying it. Instead of getting to delve into it together as a class or alone as the only one who cared, by the end of the day, all the included bits were scratched to shit by a circle compass/or scissors, stomped on, sharpie'd, or just missing. I never saw the films or got to read the material but I remember briefly holding the processor and the silicon wafer and marvelling at their beauty, immediately knowing they were special. While I didn't learn much about computers that day from that kit I learnt lots about ignorant people.
Nicole Yensen I’m sorry but your teacher and class mates were assholes! I would have stolen the kit if I were in your position.
@@SquishyZoran They're everywhere.
Hearing what these people do has made me very angry. If that had happened to me i would have resulted to m*rder.
Test the "sample" processor!
yes do it, would be interesting to see if it’s actually working
It’s not. I have one of those and the back should have an epoxy and labeling for what it is; the fact that it’s not there and looks like there’s a clear indent, I’d assume there’s no CPU in that package at all. It is just a mechanical sample, which should just be used for cooler/motherboard design to make sure things fit together well.
@@1armbiker Intel had a few bad runs around that time, before the bright spark came up with Celeron. So it might be a cpu that failed to run correctly.
@@erwinvb70 it's not. it would do literally nothing.
Man I would love to have that kit when I was in high school (2011-2015). I don't care if it was from the 90', the basics are still the same.
We had waaaay interesting stuff in high school physics... (2016-20)
Our computer science class in high school (must have been somewhere around 1999) consisted of determining what is hard- and software (duh) and how to plug in and operate certain peripherals like monitor, keyboard, mouse and printer...the absolute highlight was opening and actually typing something in word or making a simple spreadsheet in excel...and thats about it. Thank god I was interested in computers way before that because this desaster could not spark anyones interest.
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@@daHool2k5 in Hungary, IT class only covers MS office in ~8 years...
I graduated in 2010 and we did not even have a computer class. I helped put together the computer labs computers lol. The lab was only used for games and rarely ever for class. $5000 worth Dell computers 4 total. My copy of Sim City 4 DE running on 3 of them lol.
I found one of these kits at Goodwill almost 20 years ago. Still have most of it including the wafer full of CPU dies.
As I recall, mine has a socket 370 Celeron to go with all the LEDs, battery terminals, and silicon disc. There was a big binder of stuff but no VHS tapes.
@@emmettturner9452 so lucky man
Does the cpu do something
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Just dug it out and posed pics on Twitter (@CZroe). My packaged CPU from the kit isn't even labeled what kind of CPU it is (just "Mechanical Sample") and the box has that same warning about not using it in an actual computer. Some of the legs were bent but I straightened them.
@@emmettturner9452 interesting
Bet those guidebooks smell amazing with the plastic freshly removed.
They smell one million times cleaner than fresh books you've breathed in.
I remember a class I took in high school called "modular technology" basically there were about a dozen kits like this, but each one was a different type of technology, aerodynamics, pneumatics, PLC, radio broadcasting, and you picked one and self taught which each kit with the goal of 4 per year, everyone at least doubled that and I hit 9 myself, I learned more in that class than any of the others and teacher generally either read or slept through it, point is tell a kid about a lesson you learned from a kit teach them for a semester tops, give a kid the kit directly and they'll remember it for life
Whoa! We had the exact same thing in my high school. One of them was actually a full fledged old MS Flight Sim complete with full cockpit controls. We also had one to program robots. Completely forgot about that class!
@@joeconti2396 same, never got to use them cause they were taken really quickly by other students, the miniaturized wind tunnel was really cool though
@@zachkrake7169 I did the wind tunnel as well. Funny you mentioned the teacher didn't really know anything. Ours for this was the woodshop teacher.
@@joeconti2396 did we go the same school? It was the woods/metals teacher, not the guy nicknamed Dutch, the other one
@@zachkrake7169 dude was a younger teacher. I can't actually remember his name it was something Italian and started with a D I think.
Oh man, i remember the Everyready 9 Cat. Those were days, before the rise of our omnipotent overlord, The Energizer Bunny. Now we live in post bunny dystopia. Long live 9 cat!!!!
Eveready Cat batteries are still around, but harder to find compared to Duracell/Energizer. They still use the same logo as well.
Eveready still sold in Australia.
Computers? Naw, will never catch on. Now, a TV that's also your secretary, that's the future!
at least the folks at webtv, and people like my mother in law thought so.
Yes, I indeed laughed at your subtle indication of your new multi-camera setup...
I am 14 and I legit saw the pamphlet for the second kit in the "computer room" at school.
Annette Chavez would have actually been somewhat of a celebrity to us American middle schoolers of the time - she was previously host of Wild and Crazy Kids on Nickelodeon, and most of us were right in the age range to have watched that show when we were younger.
Who else expected MC Double Def DP to jump out of the screen and awkwardly rap some information about pirating floppy disks ?...
Don't copy that floppy!
in a box
Did I hear you right? Did I hear you saying? That you're gonna make a copy of a game without paying?
13:40 The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in.
"In the 90s" Teachers here in germany still used them when I was graduating and are definetly still in use
It might be the climax of the kit but it is all a computer does. Everything else emerges from unimaginable complexity and speed.
My dad worked for IBM doing processor design for years. He has a few reject wafers, I always thought they were amazing.
The clip at 9:28 just shot me back to secondary schooI, taking in broken memory sticks when I'd not finished work in time.
I delt with a modern equivalent when in tech school.
I attended a "desktop diagnostic classes"
We diagnosed, repaired and engineered fixes for issues. Not just with hard ware but software.
I had 2 teachers try to teach the Same thing.
My 1st (he was in silicone valley in the late 80s to 90s fureing the tech boom, and worked at "locamotive") Teacher had layed the foundation and with the same kit and VHS tape (simular to the kit shown) and slowly, and in order of newer info in order. So we started with the same basic knowledge he did, in the late 90s and worked our way to modern day computers. He had a 9 out of 10 Completion yearly
2nd teacher (had no history in computers) she had decided to throw out the the basics and sought to buy tos that are in no way used for computer diagnostic (pipe wrench, rivet gun, cheap multimeter without probes, Robertson screws driver, and channel locks) and a top of the line "manufacturing Robotic arm for "educational purposes" sat in the corner and the local newspaper ran a story about the arm.
3 years on they are trying to sell it after removing the "desktop diagnostic class" due to the class only having 4 cumulatively, complete program in 8 years (that's about 1 in 10 student every year).
Safe to say I wanted a brand new $400,000 robot arm for $500 (the plastic protector was still on the input controler from the factory) but I have neither the drive to remember that stupid thing, or to fix it, if it needed repairs (it was in a school after all)
So yha sth sold the arm for nearly a 10th the price, to get rid of it, I bought my tool box from class (I got a full "husk electronic tool kit" which mainly was a good quality multi meter, small pliers, tweekers, a "coredless" sodering iron with thermometer, a barely used bottle of sodder, and sodder wick.) Sad to see the class go, but I'm shure Lewis Rossmans repair videos were her replacement to hands on work after she nearly thew out our tools.
I'm from the UK and grew up using BBC Micros and Archimedes and we never had anything this cool in our computer studies lessons... Though to be our teacher was more obsessed with people not having their hands in their pockets than actual teaching! He also spent numerous lessons going over (and over) the absolute basics and on the odd occasion he did move on he first had to go over the basics again. Most lessons were like a TV programme with 22 minutes of "previously on..." and 4 minutes of "and now"
That 90's Everready label with the cat.... I feel my childhood in this.... You used to be able to buy those 9V batteries for cheap, and they where used in R/C car transmitters (the old 43/72mhz ones)...
I want one of those wafers, that is cool.
The actual experement part was covered in Science class during our electricity chapter, not the same teacher as my computer class, but it was covered pretty well. He had full dedicated setups with a bult in throwswitch and places to use aligator clips and snap in big D cell batteries-all in all a Very nice setup.
11:13 it was for middle schools in the states, we had actual computer classes in the 90s, especially mid to late 90s. this kit wasn't intended for "home room" or literal general classes like what we in the states got in elementary back then. it was more like a highscool setting. so for the most part classrooms that got these kits used them until the new kit came out, that's why they went ahead and did more than one.
I used this kit before in 1998 during high school. I was the teaching assistant and used it to teach other students in the class about how computers work.
Actually had an Electronics Class in my 12th Grade (1975-76).Closest to PC Tech class we had.Built a Tube Type Superheterodyne Receiver (Radio) from scratch.Loved that class! Fond memories of CHARGING up LARGE Electrolytic Caps & tossing to the guy across the table...LOL !
I remember in high school (90's) my computer repair class was suppose to be fixing computers. But we all just came to a realization that all the old IBM computers/ compatibles were not worth saving and we ended up chucking them in the recycling bin. We pretty much just build gaming PC's. Man you just brought back some memories.
4:53 Original soundtrack by the great Anthony Phillips! He was the original guitarist and songwriter for prog rock group Genesis. The song you hear at 4:53 is "Force Majeure" which can be found on the Finger Painting LP; A collection of his stock music works mostly from the 80s.
I remember the one this specific one in the video back in the 7th grade here in the US. My science teacher taught us how to use the computer even though most of us already did. it was pretty standard teaching stuff in 97 depending on what school got these.
I used to make the targets that eventually became the wafers. It was really cool seeing the end products and even the returned scrap.
11:42 Wow, as an American, seeing those Everready Cat 9 batteries really takes me back! They were probably one of the more popular brands of "cheap" battery available and very common. Where they common in the UK during the 90's as well? Everready is the company that makes Energizer batteries. Energizer is their top-end battery, while Everyready is generally branded as a lower/cheaper tier, although today Everready makes a common rechargeable Everyready branded battery kit that is rather common.
Hey I remember when the only battery I bought was an eveready battery. My grandad has a 9v solid everyeady battery, (aka one with the zinc and copper plates inside a cardboard box as a battery) it’s over 80years old and still holds a charge and can be used to run a voltage tester.
Wow!! This is amazing!!! I want to just sit down and explore all of this!!
I did in fact enjoy this video, thank you for asking!
I remember my high school threw one of these out when I was attending there in the mid-2000's. I never had a teacher use materials from one of the kits.
Omg my dad had the first kit when I was growing up! I never new what it was but the kit was in our house for years. It's crazy to see this again.
Those sets are some of the most 90s thing I've seen, and I love it all.
Back in the 80's we had computer classes using Apple II and advanced programming on a multi user mini computer, as for the hands on electronics lessons, that was done in an electronics class.
Hearing Weird Al Yankovic's _It's All About The Pentiums_ playing in my head while watching this video.
Weird Al's version is 486% better than the original!
'Got me a hundred gigabytes of ram'... wait, no I don't, I still only have 8GBs.
wait wut. This was all well before my time so WUT
@@Dimondminer11 There were some great songs about computers back in the day. Like Al Yankovic's _It's All About The Pentiums_ and John Vanderslice's _Bill Gates Must Die._
I went to a Science and Technology Academy, starting when I was in 6th grade onward thru 8th. My technology teacher had one of these kits, but by the time I got to that school, I was well past simple circuts, so I never got to experience the lesson (the wafer is awesome tho, and you can buy them cheap)
They also built a new wing onto the school and that became the tech labs, with CNC and robotics stations, MIDI music studios, Video production labs, and a bunch of other stuff... I was lucky enough to to start that school the first year it opened, and I learned a hell of a lot of information. Got me building computers at age 14.
Love this channel. Thanks for all the hard work. You are very appreciated team.
I remember that poster! We had that hanging up in the elementary computer classroom in the late 90's, early 2000's.
The transistor in the instructions is Mosfet (Drain, Gate, Source). The transistor in the kit is bipolar (TIP48). This could cause some problems if you put a powerful 1.5v battery with thick(ish) wires on the transistor. It'll get very hot with the base current reaching several amps.
Mosfet transistors have insulated gates. The equivalent pin on a bipolar transistor (Base) isn't insulated but presents a diode with a 0.6v drop.
We had this at my high school, I remember I must have watched those videos a dozen times in my two-year computer tech course 🤣
The wafer was really cool though, I remember marveling at it for hours.
I graduated high school in 1992 so we didn't have kits like this. However, my school was selected for a pilot program that taught students about computers and electronics. Unfortunately, the program only lasted one year, but I learned a lot and it set me on the path to a CS degree. I would love to get my hands on one of these kits. Even though I was already out of high school when these kits were developed it's still a cool bit of education and computer history.
I was almost 50 years old and LONG out of school when this kit was released! All of my computer learnin' was self taught. It would have been fun to work through the kit though.
Man I honestly think if we had access to this kit or even just the video in elementary school or Junior High (grade 1-6, &7-9) it might have seriously changed my life.
I was born in 1987 and all I remember of the first 6 years of school was a bunch of old apple 2s in a room, and 4 of the newer internet connected macs in the library eventually upgrading to one in each classroom. In junior high we got the multi color I macs in a room off the library.
All I remember in all of those years is being taught that computers were basically a big encyclopedia painfully too slow to use, something for using macs version of Microsoft paint, and of course in elementary school...ugly green boxes with Oregons trail (omg! Best school days ever!) And something like space invaders.
All we ever covered was your basic electrical....positive negative, ac/DC, electro magnet.... motor, switch... done. No transistor, fets, capacitors, etc. Computers no way.
Junior high was just hamsterdance and highschool was looking at pictures of buffy the vampire slayer... until someone stole all the computer mice and literally bankrupted the entire highschool computer budget.
Of course I eventually got a computer at home that my dad used for book keeping in junior high with AOL and 56k that was 1kb a second and we learned about Napster etc and mp3s that took 2 days to download and that's all that a computer was to me.
By the time I finally met someone who actually had any clue about a computer or got access to dsl was after highschool and too late. Made up for it by wasting a year of my life on the original COD Lol. I was literally one of the top 10 in the world. If only we had twitch or UA-cam back then... few years later I learned enough to start an online business, barely.... lost it all to an unscrupulous web host.
This is beyond amazing. It would be great if the content was made available online
I had that thing.. ended up keeping the demo processor and wafer.. the rest was covered in battery acid.. lol.. the processor does work and is a pentium 233 mmx engineering sample. I think these kits were made to get a uncle sam tax break.
The EverReady 9 lives refers to the fact that the old battery technology would kind of bounce back after going dead to a usable voltage after letting them sit a while.
This needs a much longer and detailed video. Thanks!
Awesome, I realy enjoyed al the nostalgia :-)
Cheers on yet another great video !!
Nice colorfull suits too, Intel !
Cool TV ad they had with that back then, I still remember those :D
Great bundle! I regret that we doesn't have it in polish schools in '90s. Getting knowledge wasn't easy in era without internet...
In my humble opinion "Colossus" WAS the first thing we could qualify as the first "general purpose digital" computer. Univac may still hold the title for the general "business" digital computer (as it was commercially sold, rather than for strictly research/government use.)
Now that was well worth watching! Thaks, Mr Nerd.
This triggered memories I didn't even know I had! That toaster example is a classic 😂
Reminds me of a class I took junior year in 2007. One of the things we did was basically this, but a step up lol. It was basically just soldering everything to a board in the right order. My project shocked you when you touched it. That was it lol. I still have it actually lol
We had this at my school , they followed it to the number , our school had full , modern computer labs due to the mining company in town , every time they updated , back then it was like every 3 years , the retired hardware went to the schools we never thought much of it then just seemed normal but looking back the stuff we had was kind of crazy
We had nothing at my school. Which is remarkable considering the team that invented the transistor were living in my home town when they did that and one of the co-creators of the C programming language and UNIX attended my school too.
I have one of those mmx men dolls somewhere - its a grey one and its stance can only be described as `ready to have a dump`.
I was hoping you were going to lick the terminal on all of the 9V batteries to see if they have a charge!
What is that weird thing you put that black thing into to make the pictures and sound come up on the TV?
The old Intel logo, it was such a good logo. Remember when Apple announced the switch to Intel CPUs? They just presented the word Apple with a subscript e at the end, and everybody knew the rumors are true, they switch from PowerPC to Intel. Such a good logo!
Now they have a generic elliptical thing with a forgetable font.
Yep, I remember getting chills when "Transitions" appeared on screen, then a quiet "Yeah!" when "It's truₑ!" showed up. i.imgur.com/Tpr4yDs.png
Always have thought that was the hallmark of a really well designed logo to my mind the text should ideally be a helpful hint to anyone encountering it for the first time, do your job right and the rest of the design should be simple and memorable enough to be recognised on it's own by anyone that has seen the original. A great example of this would be the brewery carling a logo so iconic that they literally ran whole multiple TV marketing campaigns in the UK where the usual end of ad shot of the product logo never actually used the standard CARLING text it would just be some adjective they were trying to associate with and knowing that their logo was so recognisable with any text printed in the same font there they could use it instead to create a mental association between the desired adjective and the logo ok kinda psychologically manipulative too but it's a TV ad so that is par for the course does take one hell of a good design to be confident enough to pull that and not fear that a large portion of those CPM's you are paying for will be instead left thinking "What was that ad for again?".
those overhead projectors were even used when i was going to school in 2010... you're talking about it like you need to be old to remeber them ^^ great video though
They might be a part of culture. I was doing my master studies in Germany, in 2017 (in telecommunications), and the projectors were still in use by some departments. For some classes, there were huge amounts of already existing slides. For technological innovations, we had professors and teaching assistants which were experts in doing real-time hand-drawn animations on the slides with non-permanent markers. The slides would get erased after each lecture, in order to have the possibility of doing the animations by hand, in real-time, again next year.
Loved this vid, the kit is brilliant, that wafer is ace! And my goodness, I'd forgotton the joy of acetates and dull school ohp's with bulbs that should have been changed a decade earlier! My science teacher used to have to blackout all the windows to make her's even remotly visable! Good times! 😊
Sadly my computer training in high school involved paper "punch" cards, with no information about the computer itself.
the sillicon waver look so awesome !!
We never had this in our schools, but I personally own one of these! Still complete in box, just a very cool thing.
OK if this is filmed with Intel at their offices, that explains what would have to be a 1997 Pre-season Bay Bridge game with Geronimo Berroa at bat.
Thanks for nearly starting a subscription of audible on my alexa device 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reminds me of the Johnny Ball electronics kit I had as a child. Nice video thanks for making.
As someone who went to public middle and high school in Southern California during the 1990's in a middle class town. I never saw anything like this, in fact computers were only really used to teach typing and no more. Which in hind sight was extremely short sighted.
I really wanna know if that chip included in the kit can work on a pc lol
I really wish they continued to make these kits but update it with more modern information.
We used the first gen kit of this in high school, I want to say about 1996 or 1997. I ended up with just the box of parts part of one at the end of the year, though it was unused. I used the batteries since hey, free batteries, as well as the roll of electrical tape as I've always been an electrical tinkerer. I've used several of the LEDs and a couple of the switches for various projects over the years, but most of them are still kicking around. Still have the box with the wafer and couple dies and processor kicking around - I kept meaning to try it in a junk board just to see if it actually worked or not, but never got around to it. I was already a pretty techy computer guy in high school so I didn't find the video or exercises especially helpful but it was fun.
Who had ever tout that a bunch of 1s and 0s would take over the world,just insane & unbelievible.
*uses a Varta battery* 15:26
*Traumatized Amiga owners curl up in a ball, and start sobbing*
Their NiMH AAs are awesome!
@@SproutyPottedPlant You must not get the joke... xD
Varta batteries have a nasty habit of exploding when they are left in things and they were commonly used in Amigas. Searching #vartadestroyerofworlds on UA-cam should get you a good example. :)
I think I vaguely remember seeing one of those kits. A few chapters of the course were used, to explain the basics of logic, for a Turbo Pascal class. We only got as far as the LED & transistor exercise. Those "Classic" batteries had that design for years, and they weren't even alkaline. They kinda made a resurgence as a cheap alternative, as NiCad rechargeables were starting to gain more popularity & become more affordable.
I remember hearing about these on a TV show ("The Next Step" maybe,) but if my school ever got a kit, I never saw it. I've been curious all these years was was in those kits and how they intended to teach. Thanks for finding and sharing.
Did you also go to a baptist school by chance? Just like the one in the video, where they just stuffed it into a drawer never to be seen again?
@@gorak9000 Nope, I went to public school. However I was thinking about this more, by time the the Pentium kits were released, I would have been in high school, not middle school. So if my area got one of the kits, I would have been too old to see it.
My grandfather had this kit when he retired from the University in 2005.
6:02 students also like to touch and feel themselves 👀.
The wafer looks like to for some kind of technology or process validation or development. Large areas for memory (the "flat" areas) and various groups of features around. A template used to calibrate machinery, maybe. The chips resulting would have several of the processor functional units neatly available for testing (ALUs, buses, etc) independently of each other.
Could also be a wafer that was only partially processed. If large problems are detected after any processing step, and you know that most of the chips on the wafer won't work anyways, it's cheaper to just scrap the wafer at whatever step it's at than continue processing it to get a few working chips. Typically whole wafers that have made it through all the processing steps aren't discarded once they reach the end of the manufacturing process. They'll get diced (cut to individual die), and whatever chips work will get sold, and the non-working ones are scrapped. There are only a few full wafers that made it all the way through the process that aren't sold - ones that are taken for investigating the defects that are preventing the chips from working, and to improve the manufacturing process, or other internal engineering uses.
ok but that wafer is SO freaking cool
Looks like a well put together bit of kit.
0:03 I’m pretty sure that will be the very last time I’ll hear someone address us with “Hello children!”
I would love to have one of those wafers today just for a light box display. I wonder how many years failed sets were available like that or if you could get one today. I doubt that the same practices are used today, Chips are scanned and sliced in a sealed line with individual chips removed for further processing, the scraps and damaged chips being recycled back into silicon, but probably used to make larger solid state transistors due to the large amount of relative impurities that would need to be removed. However, I have no idea about the economics of electronic silicon. I do recall seeing rejected chips used in jewelry(cuff links, earrings, pendants,ect.) and other novelty items. available for sale on the open market.
At my school, I had to help my teachers to use the computers. I remember Monkey Island becoming part of the curriculum because I copied it into each computer in the school to replace some awful pirate text adventure that all of the kids beat in a single lesson. So I think a tape about Intel would have definitely been a bridge too far. :)
That came out when I was in high school. It would have been amazing at my school. The only computer classes besides typing were two electives. You could choose the basic class and learn HTML or the advanced class and learn C. I took the C class. The teacher didn't even seem to try keeping ahead of us. She just wrote code from the K&R book on the whiteboard and told us to copy it. She tried to explain things occasionally and did a very poor job at it. I think I was the only one who learned anything and that was only because I used other resources and already knew multiple dialects of BASIC.
Now I want to watch that movie, must have been a popular classic sci-fi feature film if it was made by intel!
I remember those silver Eveready batteries with the cat jumping through the 9. Def some 90's stuff goin' on there.